The self-employed already have their own Class of National Insurance (2 and 4) so already pay tax at a different rate to employees. HMRC could simply adjust their Class 4 NI rate, as it is the Class 2 that buys state pension and sick pay, while they pay 3% less than the employed.
I already...
Banks generally don't have shit for brains. I have heard from a friend working for a major bank in the City that their employer:
1 Built their office block at a cost of X
2 Sold it to a landlord for 2X
3 Lent the landlord the money to buy the property thus garnering fees and interest on the...
I think tax policy has to be shaped not only by what is fair in a post-Covid world but also what is good for the environment , whilst factoring in a plan to reinvigorate town centres and prevent them from becoming ghost towns.
Employers are facing a triple whammy: having to pay for unused...